Thanks to YOU, the Ask Patents community, overly-broad claims have at least been narrowed. AN OVERBROAD PATENT ON ONLINE SEARCH - This application from Yahoo! seeks to patent the idea of... user editing search results for themselves and other users! 10 minutes of your time can help narrow US patent applications before they become patents. Follow @askpatents on twitter to help.

QUESTION - Have you seen anything that was published before Dec 19, 2011 that discusses:

Accepting USER EDITS to SEARCH RESULTS; and

Modifying the SEARCH RESULTS PAGE based on its USER EDITS with a DRAG AND DROP interface;

If so, please submit evidence of prior art as an answer to this question.. We welcome multiple answers from the same individual.

EXTRA CREDIT - A reference to anything that meets all of the criteria to the question above AND ALSO involves user edits applying GLOBALLY to other users’ search results pages, REMOVING DUPLICATE RESULTS or a DRAG AND DROP INTERFACE to proposed user edits to search results.

TITLE: EDITORIAL CURATION OF SEARCH RESULTS

Summary: [Translated from Legalese into English] A method of modifying search results pages based on user edits.

There's also a really close match in the article "Reranking and Classifying Search Results Exhaustively Based on Edit-and-Propagate Operations" by T. Yamamoto, et al. in the Database and Expert Systems Applications: 20th International Conference DEXA 2009 Proceedings. It describes:

"The interaction between our system and the user is as follows:

The user inputs a query to our system

The system sends the query to a search engine

The system receives results from the search engine and presents them to the user

The user browses the search results.

The user uses the following three operations as necessary.
a. Delete and emphasis operations proposed in [1] to improve accuracy of the high ranked search results
b. Drag-and-drop operation to classify the search results
c. Adding a new query to the system to gather other search results.

After classifying an adequate number of search results, the user can check the classified or non-classified search results easily and obtains the desired information."

Also, there is an specific topic to discuss the "personalization component" that looks like this Prior Art Request.

the set of results can be enhanced since the returned results can
relate to the original query in addition to various reformulations of
the query. Although not depicted, it is contemplated that the
diversified results can be provided to a personalization component
(e.g., the personalization component 202 of FIG. 2); thus, a subset of
the diversified results can be provided to a user, the diversified
results can be reorder, etc.